Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctor attending one of the stricken Vance babies said: "The only treatment is to get all the liquids we can into her." After the liquids comes prayer...
...Cure. Treatment begins with the immediate withdrawal of alcohol. Then the doctor must get the patient's full story; he is advised that the road to cure is long and hard, requiring patience, determination and absolute honesty. He must report to the psychiatrist's office regularly and be punctual in spite of hell, high water or "previous appointments...
...Army had at last found a vaccine to combat dengue* fever, which had plagued 84,000 troops during the war years with rashes, headaches, fever and racking joint pains. Although nonfatal, the mosquito-borne disease lasted anywhere from two to 15 days; worst of all, there was no specific treatment...
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Keefer brought doctors up to date on the drug. Said he: "The primary interest. . . is to determine its effectiveness and toxicity in certain infections which are not susceptible to treatment with sulfonamides, penicillin and other therapeutic agents. . . . Much remains to be learned...
Concluded Dr. Keefer: "Because of the restricted supply ... it is obvious that patients selected to receive [streptomycin] must be those whom it can be expected to benefit and from whose treatment useful, needed information can be derived. Under present conditions many requests will inevitably have to be refused...